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Church youth group director charged with sex offenses
The ASSociated Press ^ | August 4, 2005 | AP

Posted on 08/04/2005 9:37:09 AM PDT by AMTRepub

Aug 4, 2005 : 11:23 am ET

KERNERSVILLE, N.C. -- The director of a church youth group has been charged with sex crimes involving two teenage girls in his group.

Timothy Paul Rowell, 23, of Kernersville, is accused of statutory sex offense and indecent liberties with a child. He had worked at Main Street Baptist Church.

The incidents happened between April 20 and June 1 with girls between 13 and 14 years old, police said. The church suspended Rowell from his duties June 22 and he was fired a week later.

"We ... did not see this coming, and basically had checked him out pretty thoroughly," the Rev. Mike Willard said.

Rowell was being held at the Forsyth County Jail with bond set at $125,000


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: anticatholicbigots; baptist; carolina; christian; county; forsyth; forsythcounty; group; kernersville; north; offender; pastor; sex; youth
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1 posted on 08/04/2005 9:37:11 AM PDT by AMTRepub
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To: AMTRepub

I thought this was only a Catholic problem? (sarcasm)


2 posted on 08/04/2005 9:38:12 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." - Tolkien)
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To: Pyro7480

Well, the difference is, he is not a Sodomite like in the RCC, but he is still a rapist.

And, unlike the Catholics, he won't get to keep his job after this.


3 posted on 08/04/2005 9:40:22 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: AMTRepub

"Church youth group director charged with sex offenses"

Had to get a stab into relgion with the headline.

Obviously, this perv doesn't own an SUV or handgun, or the headline would have stated such...


4 posted on 08/04/2005 9:40:26 AM PDT by baltodog (R.I.P. Balto: 2001(?) - 2005)
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To: rwfromkansas

The other difference is that this case won't get feature in the MSM.


5 posted on 08/04/2005 9:41:38 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." - Tolkien)
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To: Pyro7480

It is one guy, so no. It will get local coverage, but that is it.

The RCC issue only hit national once it became a cover-up and it was clear it was a bigger problem than just a couple guys.

If Protestant problems start getting covered up, they will get more national attention.


6 posted on 08/04/2005 9:44:17 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: baltodog

Or a pit bull.


7 posted on 08/04/2005 9:46:41 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Pyro7480

"I thought this was only a Catholic problem? (sarcasm)"

You are correct. This fella has it for girls.


8 posted on 08/04/2005 9:47:43 AM PDT by Preachin' (Enoch's testimony was that he pleased God: Why are we still here?)
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To: AMTRepub

This is wicked and should be treated as such.

But just look at what happened. The 23 old was suspended and then fired immediately.

How does the Catholic Church handle these matters.

Usually a slap on the hand with some counseling, representation by a multitude of lawyers and protection by the Catholic Church from legal punishment.

Washington posts reported...

"Nearly 4,500 Roman Catholic priests have been accused of sexually abusing a total of 11,000 children in the United States between 1950 and 2002, CNN reported yesterday, citing a draft of a study scheduled for release at the end of the month by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Those figures are two to three times as high as previously reported.....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A46367-2004Feb16&notFound=true


9 posted on 08/04/2005 10:04:04 AM PDT by johnk (faithful with little....)
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To: AMTRepub

Isn't it amazing how these are all repeat offenders?


10 posted on 08/04/2005 10:08:12 AM PDT by Clint Williams
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To: rwfromkansas
If Protestant problems start getting covered up, they will get more national attention.

Yep. Cases liek these in Protestant churches are isolated incidents and are simply not tolerated by said churches. This guy was fired promptly, and word about him will get out.

11 posted on 08/04/2005 10:11:29 AM PDT by k2blader (Hic sunt dracones..)
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To: Pyro7480

The initial sin is the same, it is the reaction to the sin that is different. First, they canned the guy. Then, he had to deal with the authorities and is now in jail. He will get his day in court, pay his debt to society, and will end up as a registered sex offender for the rest of his life. No protecting the scumbag and shuffling him off to a retreat or sending him to another church and sweeping the whole thing under the rug.


12 posted on 08/04/2005 10:17:42 AM PDT by RedWhiteBlue
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To: johnk

I guess, if the organisation fires him immediately, then no one can sue the organisation, like they could the Catholic Church.


13 posted on 08/04/2005 10:21:51 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: RedWhiteBlue

This wouldn't happen if they let Baptist youth directors get married.

We had the same situation. It was difficult to tell if anything actually happened because the girl and her family were crazy but we let him go anyway. He got himself in a position where he couldn't defend himself (alone in a young girl's home).


14 posted on 08/04/2005 10:22:17 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: johnk
4500 priests over a 52 year span? Is that it? about 86 a year... now, compare that to the number of teachers (or school related personnel) that are molesting children and you will find the ratio is about 8:1 compared to priests.

Why doesn't that make the nightly news? Oh yea... because teachers and the media share the same poltical views...

15 posted on 08/04/2005 10:24:29 AM PDT by sten
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To: AppyPappy

If only the Baptist Church would let its ministers marry, this would never happen.


(Note sarcasm)


16 posted on 08/04/2005 10:28:02 AM PDT by whodat57
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To: rwfromkansas

One major difference between RCC and Protestants; there is no monolithic Protestant voice. So if there were a prob, it would be more like a Baptist prob, or a Methodist prob, or fill in any brand you like. RCC has a singular heavy-handed style of leadership so any screw up on the part of the priests is a direct reflection on it's leadership.


17 posted on 08/04/2005 10:32:31 AM PDT by bethelgrad (for God, country, the Marine Corps, and now the Navy Chaplain Corps OOH RAH!)
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To: AppyPappy
We had the same situation.

This case looks a little different, in that there was more than one girl involved. One might be crazy, but when you've got a pattern of more than one, that kind of removes any doubt about what you're dealing with.

18 posted on 08/04/2005 10:32:55 AM PDT by RedWhiteBlue
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To: stuartcr

Taken from....
http://66.218.71.225/search/cache?p=can+priests+be+fired&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&u=www.snapnetwork.org/news/calif/Calif_News_BackPage_2.htm&d=58DBF74F98&icp=1&.intl=us


"....The Catholic Church has been dogged for decades by sporadic complaints of child molestation. But the magnitude of the Boston case and several high-profile settlements of civil suits by the church have drawn unusual attention.

In Boston, the archdiocese was found to have known for years about, but failed to act against, a priest who had been accused of molesting 130 children.

As that scandal mushroomed, Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston reluctantly turned over to law enforcement officials the names of 80 priests who had been accused of abusing children during the last 40 years. Boston's action was soon followed by similar disclosures in Philadelphia."

Note the phrase "reluctantly turned over" to the law.



The Bible teaches that sin of this sort should be exposed and dealt with swiftly.

The Catholic Church should not expect men to be able to live without physical relations, this is what causes the problem from the beginning.

Not one verse in the Bible indicates that this is necessary, a matter of fact, it states that elders of the Church should be married (of one wife).


19 posted on 08/04/2005 10:34:11 AM PDT by johnk (faithful with little....)
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To: RedWhiteBlue

Yeah but one is enough. Youth workers should never be in a situation where someone can make an accusation that can be taken seriously. That's why I don't drive the babysitter home. I work with youth and I have never been alone with any of them.


20 posted on 08/04/2005 10:35:27 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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